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The parent post didn't say MS is dead just that it was beaten and indeed it was. MS was thought to be unbeatable as the "consumer facing OS". But mobile OSes ca
by esturk 9y ago
The parent post didn't say MS is dead just that it was beaten and indeed it was. MS was thought to be unbeatable as the "consumer facing OS". But mobile OSes came about from an entirely new market (this being mobile) that supplanted the desktop in consumer's daily lives.
- junkscience2017 9y agoWho beat Microsoft in what? Microsoft's primary business is Windows. Who has beaten Windows? Obviously new businesses have been born that Microsoft would love to own...but so far, there has still been no successful assault on the main business
- jacksmith21006 9y agoGoogle in AI, browsers, streaming video, search, mobile and a number of other things.
- esturk 9y agoWho: Apple and Google What: Enter a new Market that 'was' supplanting an existing market I'm not sure what you meant by business here. Windows is a product from MS which is segmented by different markets. There's a business need and a consumer facing need. It got beat in the latter. It also didn't move fast enough to reach the mobile market so it got beat in speed as well. The consumer facing product has been assaulted. Consumers are buying PCs, and by extension Windows, less. MS was impacted and Ballmer resigned. That was the whole pivot to the Cloud by Satya. All this is common knowledge.